A CONTINENTAL NEO-CLASSIC STYLE CUT-GLASS CHANDELIER, the urn-form wire work frames supporting a matrix of facetted beads and pendants hung from three beaded strands having a spherical glass pendant--34in. high, 12in. diam.

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